UPCOMING EVENTS/SHOWS

PUMPKINS

Halloween has a very special place in my heart. Every year as long as I can remember I have spent countless hours designing, crafting, and carving elaborate pumpkin portraiture.

Until 2013 this was merely an annual endeavor which despite the amount of time and effort I would put into it my work would simply begin to rot away with the passing season. However, thanks to a new development in Halloween Science Carve-able Craft Foam pumpkins never rot and can be displayed all year as a proper form of art. Each pumpkin can be lit safely with LED lighting and I have designed special wall mounts for display.

I now take commissions on designing and creating Craft Foam Pumpkins. Feel free to contact me for specific commission inquires.

In this Gallery you will find examples of both my organic pumpkin carvings and ones carved from craft-foam pumpkins

ATBS

Foam Pumpkin (Michaels Craft Foam) // 2017

This was a commission for American Traditional Barber Shop

Dawn of the Red

2017 // Carved with X-acto blades

My entry in the Ninkasi Brewery pumpkin carving contest.

Jack Skellington

Foam Pumpkin (Funkin) // 2017

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster

Foam Pumpkin (Funkin) // 2017

Michael Keaton, Beetlejuice

Foam Pumpkin (Funkin) // 2017

Keifer Sutherland as David, The Lost Boys

Foam Pumpkin (Funkin) // 2017

Pennywise, IT (2017)

Foam Pumpkin (Funkin) // 2017

The Martian, MARS ATTACKS!

Foam Pumpkin (Funkin) // 2017

Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstine

Foam Pumpkin (Michaels) // 2017

Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken

Foam Pumpkin (Michaels) // 2017

Alan Rickman

2016 // Carved with X-acto blades

"DESTINY!" Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstine

2016 // Carved with X-acto blades

Pumpkin Emojis

2016 // Carved with X-acto blades

Each of these fun little mini carves were mounted on the posts of my spiral welded fence.

My first attempt using shading/shaving techniques on a foam pumpkin to prioduce a gray scale effect.

Lady in Water

2015

This is actually my first attempt at doing shading/gradation with a pumpkin carving. It came out really well! I can't wait to do more.

Classic Werewolf

2015

Daryl Dixon

Foam Pumpkin (Michaels)// 2015

Portrait of Norman Reedus as Daryl from AMC's The Walking Dead

Halloween is the Mission

Foam Pumpkin (Michaels) // 2015

Image design inspired by Major Lazer. Light changes color.

Archer

Foam Pumpkin (Michaels)// 2015

Portrait of the character Sterling Archer from FX's Archer

Pumpkin Yeezy

Foam Pumpkin (Michaels) // 2015

Portrait of musician/artist Kanye West

Crosses

Foam Pumpkin // 2015

Portrait of muscian Chino Moreno in reference to his side project Crosses

The Night King

Foam Pumpkin // 2015

Portrait of the Night King form HBO's Game of Thrones

Michonne

Foam Pumpkin // 2015

Portrait of Danai Gurira as Michonne from AMC's The Walking Dead

Kingsley

Foam Pumpkin // 2015

Portrait of my best friend and favorite pup in the whole world, Kingsley

Ice Cube

2014

Note: I carved his 3 dot tattoo on the inside of the back ground so that it would line up like an optical illusion when looked at head on.

Ninja

Die Antwoord

2014

Yolandi Visser

Die Antwoord

2014

VIDEO

A collection of my video work and digital video projects.

Beetlejuice Portrait Pumpkin Carving Time Lapse

Time Lapse carve of a realistic portrait of Michael Keaton as Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice on a Fun-kin foam pumpkin using a dremel. This carve took about 7 hours and was completed over the course of 3 days. This was filmed using the time lapse function on my iPhone 7 plus and then edited in iMovie where I increased the speed to x2.

BALL & CHAIN - 2017 - Jessica Haeckel feat. Ryan Sellick

This music video was a collaboration with my good friend Jessica Heackel, Ryan Sellick, and myself. I helped film a lot of the video (all of the close up shots and non-aerial footage), helped set things on fire, and assited with consulting.

#Enchroma Glasses: Color Blind Artist Sees Artwork for First Time

This is a reaction video I made of myself getting EnChroma Glasses and checking out some of my paintings in color for the first time. I have moderate to strong Protanopia. These fancy glasses help me fix it a bunch.

How to GVALHI

Everything you need to know about customer service is right here. New video work from 2016

DARK NOIR vol.1

Made in 2008, a different take on the genre of Film Noir by using the standard elements of the genre and artistically heightening them to new levels. Featuring the music of nine inch nails: GHOSTS I-IV. This was first uploaded to YouTube prior to the site allowing videos longer than 10 minutes so for quality retention I split the film into 3 sections. You can find a direct link to Vol.2 here, and Vol.3 here.

A video project I made in 2007. This was an experiment in sound editing using solely clips from filmed video. In this video I recreate the auditory sensation of working at a movie theater.

Cuddlez Bearz

Beat box silent movie? Gangsta teddy bears? Senseless troll on bear violence? Its all here. This was a group video project where each member of the group made a unique narrative edit from a common set of fottage.

PAINTINGS

My painting that I do is often a sort of emotional ventilation. I simply paint the way I feel to process complex things that are better expressed with brush strokes and splatter rather than words.

In a kind of medley of literal abstraction, surrealism, and impressionism in my work I try to capture the essence of the subject matter rather than just a static representation of it.

Atmospheres

Acrylic on Panel // 18" x 30" // 2016

Heart Walls

Acrylic on Canvass // 36" x 60" // 2016

Note: This painting has a hidden second layer only visible in the dark made with glow-in-the-dark paint. you can find an example of this here.

Cyties

Acrylic on Canvass // 24" x 48" // 2015

My Darling Night

Acrylic on Poster Board // 8" x 16" // 2015

Holm

Acrylic on Canvass // 16" x 20" // 2015

J

Acrylic on Canvass // 16" x 20" // 2015

Egression

Acrylic on Canvass // 33" x 44" // 2014

Know Expectations

Acrylic on Canvass // 20" x 30" // 2015

Swell

Acrylic on Canvass // 16" x 20" // 2014

Trust

Acrylic on Canvass // 16" x 20" // 2014

The Distance Between Us

Acrylic on Wood // 72" x 12" // 2013

Assencision

Oil on Canvass // 9' x 4' // 2005

Lumos

Acrylic on Canvass // 24" x 36" // 2005

Requited

Acrylic on Canvass // 48" x 60" // 2007

Cryptorchid

Acrylic on Canvass // 20" x 24" // 2004

Fester

Glow-in-the-Dark Acrylic on Canvass // 16" x 20" // 2007

SERIES: THE STRANDED

The Stranded

This is an ongoing experiment combining Wire Sculpture and Photography. Each wire sculpture is hand made using a single continuous strand of wire. The sculptures are then photographed as if they were strangers in an even stranger world.

MIX MEDIA

When one type of media just isn't enough to scrape those ideas out of your head.

Mother

Acrylic & Photo-collage on Wood // 11.5" x 31" // 2004

A Foot for Every Year

Mixed Media on Canvass // 16" x 20" // 2003

Queen of the Butterfly Collectors

Mixed Media on Poster Board // 14" x 18" // 2004

Beauty Sleep Queen

Mixed Media on Canvass // 20" x 24" // 2005

Reznor

Mixed Media on Poster Board // 12" x 14" // 2005

Further

Mixed Media on Wood // 24" x 48" // 2003

This work has hidden Glow-in-the-dark imagery.

SCULPTURE

Welding, sculpting, building... I just love working with my hands and making unusual things.

Spiral Gate

Layered plasma cut steel on wooden gate and frame // 2007

Spiral Gate

detail

Unravel

Welded and forged steel // approximately 30" x 60" x 24" // 2008

Unravel

arm/hand detail

Samus

Welded and forged Steel // 36" x 36" // 2008

8-bit high relief welded sculpture

Samus

detail

Hole

Soap Stone // 2' x 12" x 2" // 2003

The Persistence of Memory

Plaster mold, Wire, with Airbrush // 8" x 16" x 14" // 2002

MEDIA/PRESS

Times my work has been published and or featured by professional media outlets.

ClineEmily_VideoStory

This is a portion of a project for the University of Oregon about funding for the arts that I was interviewed for by student journalist Emily Cline. The video features me talking about working as a colorblind artist, my process, and carving pumpkins. The full story can be found here.

10/31/2016: I was invited onto the TV show Graveyard Carz for a little pumpkin carving hi-jinx. This bit is currently available as a web extra, but will possibly be featured in their current season finale. You can watch the clip here.

Eugene Weekly Cover Contest Winner 2016

10/27/16: For the second straight year I won the Eugene Weekly pumpkin carving contest.

Portrait Pumpkins write up featured as lead article in Arts section of Register Guard. Additionally, a photo preview of the piece made the front page of the whole paper! You can find that article here.

This was a pumpkin carving contest I entered where the winner would be featured on the cover of the publication. Although this was unrelated to the Portrait Pumpkin art show up at the same time they did mention my show in the featured article.